GA-STNL-0334

Record Date: 
3 November 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Underneath this Stone lies the much la mented Remains of Masr John Gerard Ir vine 3d Son of Major Irvine of the Roy[a]l Tyrone Militia who died on the ?18 day of May 1811 aged ?1 years and 7 Months

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272884722222
Longitude: 
-9.0538347222222
Additional details
References: 
For his father see The Galwav Free Press. January 11th. (1834). "Died. On December 4th, much respected Lieut. Col. Irving, late of the 28th Reg.".
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
IRVINE
Notes: 

A complete but very worn R.S., now reused as paving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Probably brought in and reused during the last restoration.